Lawrence O'Donnell Bashes Chris Wallace's Ratings Despite Having Half The Viewers
Monday appeared to be the day that MSNBC commentators bashed the ratings of Sunday political talk shows other than NBC's "Meet the Press."
After Chris Matthews ridiculed ABC's "This Week" despite it having more than three times his audience, Lawrence O'Donnell went after Chris Wallace and "Fox News Sunday" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
LAWRENCE O’DONNELL: Well, I think, you know, Jon Stewart’s point about Fox News has Chris Wallace on there just so they can say they have him, just so they can say they have a reasonably fair Sunday morning show. It comes in dead last in the ratings. David Gregory just kills it, you know, by a million miles. So it isn't there as a real business. It's just there as a fig leaf for the Fox News people to claim there's a news show Sunday morning.
"David Gregory just kills it, you know, by a million miles."
Really? According to TVNewser, "[W]hen the two cable replays on Fox News are taken into consideration, 'FNS' draws more viewers than 'Face the Nation' or 'This Week.'”
What shills like O'Donnell choose to ignore is that "Fox News Sunday" airs on two different channels: FNC on cable and regular broadcast Fox.
When organizations like Nielsen rank these Sunday shows, they only factor in the broadcast ratings. Add in those watching "FNS" on FNC and it normally comes in first.
As "Meet the Press" typically averages about 3.5 million viewers every Sunday, that means "FNS's" combined numbers are greater than this.
If O'Donnell thinks this isn't a "real business" model for Fox, what does he think of the roughly 1.5 million viewers he gets each day - 57 percent less than Wallace! - during the combined airings of "The Last Word?"
Oh. That's right. MSNBC isn't in this racket to make money.
This is liberal advocacy plain and simple no matter the cost - as long as the new owners at Comcast are willing to go along with it, that is.
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Kinda like the fighter who is
Submitted by killa37 on Mon, 06/20/2011 - 11:39pm.
Kinda like the fighter who is laying on the mat, bloody, bruised, and beat up.............saying 'let me at'em'!!!!
do you remember the movie the
Submitted by jkwtrading on Mon, 06/20/2011 - 11:57pm.
do you remember the movie the "incredible shrinking man" .. the smaller he became the more he squeaked and shrieked. MSNBC just is doing the 2011 remake.
If both Schultz and O'Donnell
Submitted by Chris Norman on Mon, 06/20/2011 - 11:39pm.
If both Schultz and O'Donnell weren't so obnoxious their attempts at belittling the ratings of Fox News shows would be kind of sadly pathetic and pitiable. They're like 120 lb weaklings flexing in the mirror.
. . . and they are welcome to the bitter dregs . . .
Submitted by neutron on Mon, 06/20/2011 - 11:58pm.
I read where 20% of America won't vote for a Mormon.
Isn't that the same percentage that are "truthers" ?
So, (as I said on the earlier NewsBusters' post about this same hockey-schtick from Chrissy Matthews (who is not a misogynist), MSNBC is so taken by the success of the lib/prog LSM turning REP voters into DEM voters ( /sarc ) that they now take-up the drumbeat that " 'nobody likes ABC' and 'nobody likes Fox News' so you should watch us!"
How brain-dead do they think we are? Do they think they can just tell us what we think, and then we act on it?
Oh, yeah! These are MSNBC LibTards, used to their mind-numbed robots, who do react like automatons to what they are told think and do.
Sorry, Lawrence of Arabia and Prissy Chrissy with tinkles down the leg, it will work less well for your dwindling numbers than it is working for your messiah, Barak Obama (who is not a Muslim).
Hmm... Marching Orders Memo?
Submitted by neutron on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 12:12am.
Golly! On the same day that Chrissy spews on ABC, Larry O'Dunce uses the exact same attack strategy on Fox.
What gives?
(A) Talking Points from The LibTard Central Committee?
(B) Journ-O-Lists from The LibTard Central Committee's Casting Couch?
(C) A coordinated attack (from an inferior position) hopping to plant a suppository news story into the enema-feed of the LSM?
I thought Roger Ailes was supposed to be the only puppet-master.
It looks like MSNBC (meat-puppet) news-readers are told exactly what to say. (O'Dunce said in an interview that he is really an actor reading the lines he is given, which are slanted toward controversy.)
So, put cork in MSNBC's pie hole. If nobody watches them, then a tree falling in a forest when nobody is around makes a louder noise!
Jealousy
Submitted by grammajane on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 12:09am.
It's amazing the lies told by jealous "hosts" of shows nobody wastes time watching.Those radicals think they are so popular and just can't acknowledge Fox has and will always beat them in any rating. Meet the depressed has turned into a comedy watching Gregory get so upset at hearing anything from a conservative that he doesn't agree with. He spudders and interupts and makes a fool of himself and it is funny to watch, and also pathetic.
Sounds like MSNBC is losing advertisers
Submitted by johnsonl on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 6:19am.
and has initiated a smear campaign to try to get more viewers. Liberalism doesn't pay the bills, folks. Perhaps an across the board pay cut is in order. That would mean Richard Maddow would have to give up his "man cave".
MSNBC is now officially the
Submitted by motherbelt on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 6:59am.
MSNBC is now officially the Cable News Bizarro World.
Come To Think Of It
Submitted by Bourbeau on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 7:03am.
I don't recall an instance where anything that Lawrence O'Donnell says on his show becomes a "must see" event on TV. In other words, aside from his 1.5 million viewers which I doubt very seriously, he's pretty much dead air. He's neither intelligent in his observations, nor particularly inciteful. Some day, the cable channels will learn that it's not good enough to just have familiar talking heads as hosts; sometimes you need quality personalities that create a following. Mr. O'Donnell is not one of those personalities, and MSNBC knows it.
He must have. .
Submitted by rickbren on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 7:26am.
learned math in a government run school.
1 + 1 = 11, 2 + 3 = 23, etc.
Submitted by Red Jeep on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 8:34am.
True.
The Crazy Larry Show is Still On?
Submitted by gruyere cheese on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 7:29am.
I read at Mediabistro that Crazy Larry got a new studio, complete with new furniture, screen, back drop, etc., maybe is all going to his big head.
Lefties acting like lefties...
Submitted by adamsmith on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 7:32am.
This is just another example of a circular firing squad the Left is known for. Matthews taking a shot at another Communist franchise shows that they are beginning to point the finger of blame at each other for a failing country and failed policies. Be nice to see Matthews on a soup line some day. This Cretin has done much damage to America.......
MSNBC is the NPR of television
Submitted by Less1leg on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 8:19am.
Not many people watch MSNBC and neither many people listen to NPR. But that doesn't stop the ultra left from pontificating about "how smart they are" as compared to you heathens. Talking ratings with these people are like talking the Wall Street Journal with Uncle Joe Stalin. There is no connection, except Uncle Joe would have thrown these morons in the gulag because of their views.
There is no level ground of discussion with these University Glee Club degenerates. We all know from college days those pricks with there swarmy attitudes who just sit there poking a fight with anyone around who counters their view on anything. Their intellect trumps anything in the room, and MSNBC are those uppity pricks who gravitated from college to the real world but never lost that Uppity I'm Smarter than you attitude.
It isn't that they're smarter, its they don't shut the heck up, or listen to anyone. Its all about them,and they know more, and better than anything alive or dead.
I find that talking to or arguing with
Submitted by johnsonl on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 8:52am.
a liberal is much like reasoning with a two year old child. Their concept of reality has no basis in fact.
question
Submitted by right of way on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 12:13pm.
Really? According to TVNewser, "[W]hen the two cable replays on Fox News are taken into consideration, 'FNS' draws more viewers than 'Face the Nation' or 'This Week.'”
question. what are the ratings without the two cable replays on fox news? that's what lawrence is talking about, is he right? that's the way i rate shows.